BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY (HONG KONG BRANCH) ORDINANCE

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY (HONG KONG BRANCH) ORDINANCE

LAWS OF HONG KONG

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY (HONG KONG BRANCH)

ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 1129





CHAPTER 1129

BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY (HONG KONG BRANCH)

To further and protect the activities in Hong Kong of the British Red
Cross Society, and to incorporate the Hong Kong Branch thereof.

[26th November, 1976.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the British Red Cross Society
(Hong Kong Branch) Ordinace.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-

'Charter' means the Royal Charter dated the 3rd September 1908 and all
Supplemental Charters, granted to the Society;

'Hong Kong Branch' means the Hong Kong Branch of the Society;

'Society' means the British Red Cross Society incorporated by Royal
Charter dated the 3rd September 1908.

3. No person shall, except with the authority of the Society or the
Hong Kong Branch, distribute or sell or expose for sale

(a)any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted by the
Society or the Hong Kong Branch for use by members
thereof; or

(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the words 'The
British Red Cross Society' or 'The British Red Cross
Society (Hong Kong Branch)' or 'Hong Kong Red
Cross' or the characters or
or

4. No person shall, except with the authority of the Society or the
Hong Kong Branch or with lawful authority or lawful excuse, have in his
possession

(a)any badge, token or emblem specifically adopted by the
Society or the Hong Kong Branch for use by members thereof
; or

(b) any badge, token or emblem containing the words 'The
British Red Cross Society' or 'The British Red Cross
Society (Hong Kong Branch)' or 'Hong Kong Red
Cross' or the characters or
or

5. No person shall without lawful authority or lawful excuse have in
his possession

(a)any device which so closely resembles any badge, token or
emblem specifically adopted by the Society or the





Hong Kong Branch for use by members thereof as to lead to
the belief that the device in question is such badge, token or
emblem; or

(b)any badge, token or emblem containing any words or
characters so closely resembling any words or characters
ordinarily used to describe any member of the Society or the
Hong Kong Branch as to be calculated to deceive or mislead.

6. (1) No person shall form, or work in connexion with, or be a
member of

(a)any organization which without authority from the Society or
the Hong Kong Branch claims or purports to be the Society or
the Hong Kong Branch, or the Hong Kong Red Cross;

(b)any organization, other than the Society or the Hong Kong
Branch, which uses the title of the Society, or the Hong Kong
Branch or Hong Kong Red Cross or the equivalent Chinese
title therefor or any title in any language which, with or
without additional words or characters, so closely resembles
any of the said titles as to be calculated to deceive or mislead;
or

(c)any organization which, by the use of any such title or
otherwise, without due authority, purports or claims to be
connected with the Society or the Hong Kong Branch.

(2) No person, other than a member of the Society, or the Hong
Kong Branch, shall wear or use any uniform or equipment of the Society
or the Hong Kong Branch.

7. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of section 3,
section 4, section 5, or section 6 shall be guilty of an offence and shall
be liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000.

8. The President, the Chairman, the Director, the Honorary
Treasurer and the Secretary for the time being of the Hong Kong Branch
shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called 'the Corporation', and shall
have the name 'The British Red Cross Society (Hong Kong Branch)%
and in that name shall have perpetual succession and may sue and be
sued in all courts and shall 11 have and may use a common seal.

9. On the commencement of this Ordinance, all those pieces or
parcels of ground specified in the Schedule, together with all rights,
easements and appurtenances thereto belonging, shall vest in the
Corporation for the unexpired residue of the respective term of years
created by the Crown Lease or Conditions of Grant specified in relation
thereto, subject to payment of the rent and performance of the
covenants and conditions reserved by and contained. in the said Crown
Leases and Conditions of Grant.





10. (1) The Corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases
of, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or
tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situate, and
also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings,
messuages or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities of any government, municipality, corporation
or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess vessels, goods
and chattels of what nature and kind soever.

(2) The Corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal
to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up,
mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands,
buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks,
funds, shares or securities, vessels, goods or chattels, which are for the
time being vested in or belonging to the Corporation upon such terms
as to the Corporation may seem fit.

11. All deeds and other instruments requiring the seal of the
Corporation shall be sealed in the presence of, and shall be signed by
any two of the following: the President, the Chairman, the Director, the
Honorary Treasurer and the Secretary for the time being of the Hong
Kong Branch.

12. All matters of internal management of the Corporation shall be
settled and carried out in accordance with the Charter and Rules of the
Society and the rules and regulations for the time being of the Hong
Kong Branch.

13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the
rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, or the rights
of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as
are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under
them.

SCHEDULE [s.
9.] PROPERTY VESTED IN THE CORPORATION

All those pieces or parcels of ground known and registered in the Land Office
as

1.Inland Lot 7966 (Anne Black Red Cross Headquarters; Crown Lease dated
21.1.1971)

2.Inland Lot 8101 (John F. Kennedy Centre, Sandy Bay; Crown Lease dated
2.7.1971)

3.Inland Lot 8265 (Margaret Trench Red Cross School, Sandy Bay; Conditions
of Grant No. 9863 dated 10.3.1971)

4.Kwun Tong Inland Lot 255 (Princess Alexandra Residential School, Kwun
Tong; Conditions of Grant No. 7058 dated 9.3.1962)
Originally 73 of 1976 Short title Interpretation Unauthorized distribution of badges Unauthorized possession of badges Unauthorized possession of devices resembling badges Unauthorized bodies Offences and penalty Incorporation Vesting of property Schedule Powers of Corporation Execution of documents Internal management Saving

Originally 73 of 1976 Short title Interpretation Unauthorized distribution of badges Unauthorized possession of badges Unauthorized possession of devices resembling badges Unauthorized bodies Offences and penalty Incorporation Vesting of property Schedule Powers of Corporation Execution of documents Internal management Saving

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